Dionna Brown

Environmentalist, Policy maker, Student

Dionna Brown (she/her) grew up in Flint, Michigan. Dionna currently serves as the National Director of the Youth Environmental Justice Griot Program for Black Millennials 4 Flint (BM4F) where she carries out her mission to educate the youth and create future activists in her community. Dionna’s experience with living through the Flint Water Crisis sparked her thirst to be a voice for her community. She is a living testament to Flint kids living through adversity yet still being successful in many different areas of life. Dionna’s drive for environmental justice and education also comes from the privilege of being educated at Howard University where she obtained a bachelor’s in Sociology. She is working on her master’s in Sociology at Wayne State University. After obtaining her master’s, she plans on earning her Juris Doctorate as she plans on being a civil rights attorney. Dionna is passionate about environmental and climate justice at the intersection of race and gender, law, politics, and social justice. She always strives to learn more about her passions and believes in always being teachable. Alongside her passions, Dionna also enjoys cooking, baking, reading, spending time with family, and traveling. She is fluent in Simplified Chinese as she has been studying Chinese language and culture since her freshman year of high school. She was accepted to the Tradition and Modernity in Taiwan Program for her stellar accomplishments in her Chinese classes while in college.

Environmental justice

Sewing, coding, poetry, speaking Chinese, and website design